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Anna Paquin.
Birth Name: Anna Helene Paquin.
Date of Birth (location): 24. July 1982, Winnipeg; Manitoba, Canada.
Height: 5' 5"
Family:
Father: Brian Paquin, physical-education teacher; Canadian; born 1952; separated from Paquin's mother in 1995.
Mother: Mary Paquin, English teacher; separated from Paquin's father in 1995.
Brother: Andrew Paquin, older; born 1977; attended Harvard.
Sister: Katya Paquin, older; born 1980.
Biography:
Anna Paquin is the star of three major motion pictures, including her first Oscar winning performance in The Piano, the role of the young Jane in the 1996 film Jane Eyre, and the role of Amy Alden in this fall's charming family film, Fly Away Home. With a well-developed vocabulary and gentle sense of humor, Paquin proves herself to be the most enchanting young talent working today. Paquin's rising stardom has often been a cause of charming media shyness, where it is obvious that she is an ordinary girl who happens to posses an extraordinary talent. She has two agents, Gail Cowan in New Zealand, and the William Morris agency in L.A., but neither these or her parents have much influence in deciding what she films. "In the end, " she says, "it's my decision." Paquin's parents separated while she was filming Fly Away Home in Canada. On Oscar night, 1993, Anna Paquin was the surprise (and surprised) winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She stood, wide-eyed and gulping for breath at the microphone for a full twenty some odd seconds before delivering a gracious, though rather breathless thank-you speech.
Fun Facts:
She is a vegetarian.
David Letterman bet her $10,000 to get a basket ball in the net. She did it, but he took the money back after the show. The media caused a fuss so he gave it back. Anna gave all the money to charity.
(1997) While filming the movie Amistad in Montreal during the summer, Paquin made a side trip to Toronto to film 5 TV commercials for the telephone company of her old hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Paquin delivers the commercials in a variety of costumes in her Canadian accent rather than her New Zealand one.
She keeps her Oscar in her bedroom closet so her friends won't see it and feel the need to comment on it.
She enjoys photography.
Family moved to New Zealand when Anna was 4.
She plays the cello.
Parents are divorced, and Anna now lives with her mother in LA.
She beat out more than 5,000 girls for the role of Flora in "The Piano".
Hobbies: rugby, running, playing the piano, singing, gymnastics, swimming, downhill skiing, reading, and knitting.
Enjoys listening to alternative music.
When she was younger, she wanted to be the Prime Minister of New Zealand, or a lawyer.
Is the first New Zealander to receive an Oscar for best supporting actress, and is the second-youngest Oscar winner ever.
She loves watching "Dawson's Creek" - her favorite character is Pacey.
She still hasn't seen all of "The Piano".
Is a fan of the Beatles.
She has 2 cats and 1 dog.
Is fluent in French.
Paquin's first acting experience was as a skunk in a school ballet.
Oscar: Best Supporting Actress, The Piano.
Education:
Graduated from Windward School in West Los Angeles, CA in June 2000; she completed the school's community service requirement by working in an LA soup kitchen and at a special education center.
Entered Columbia College as a first-year in August 2000. Upon move-in, Anna arrived in a limousine and brought a personal bodyguard.
Quotes:
"None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting."
"Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!" On Rogue in X-Men.
"Rogue doesn't need to be rescued. She's not the damsel in distress anymore." On Rogue in X-Men 2.
Actress-Filmography:
X2: X-Men United (2003)...Marie D'Ancanto/Rogue
25th Hour (2002)...Mary D'Annunzio.
Darkness (2002)...Regina.
Buffalo Soldiers (2001)...Robyn Lee.
Finding Forrester (2000)...Claire Spence.
Almost Famous (2000)...Polexia.
X-Men (2000)...Marie D'Ancanto/Rogue.
All the Rage (1999)...Annabel Lee.
She's All That (1999)...Mackenzie Siler.
A Walk on the Moon (1999)...Alison Kantrowitz.
Hurlyburly (1998)...Donna.
"Hercules" (1998) TVseries (Voice)...Bia.
Amistad (1997)...Queen Isabel.
The Member of the Wedding (1997)...Frankie Addams.
Fly Away Home (1996)...Amy Alden.
Jane Eyre (1996)...Young Jane Eyre.
The Piano (1993)...Flora McGrath.
Tenku no shiro Rapyuta (1986) (English version)...Sheeta
